Roelof Botha joins SpaceX’s board of directors

The former Sequoia Capital leader is filling an “existing vacancy” on SpaceX’s board, days after the company went public in the largest IPO ever.

After unveiling ridiculously expensive AR glasses, Snap’s stock takes a dive

Snap’s long-awaited smart glasses debut hasn’t exactly done wonders for the company’s stock.

NEA’s Tiffany Luck says enterprises are still figuring out their AI ROI

Tokenmaxxing was the hottest trend in Silicon Valley earlier this year, with CEOs encouraging employees to push AI usage as far as it would go. Then the bill came due. Uber reportedly blew through its annual AI budget in a few months, some companies cut Claude licenses for parts of their org, and Meta killed its internal leaderboard.  This tension between… Continua a leggere NEA’s Tiffany Luck says enterprises are still figuring out their AI ROI

SpaceX valuation balloons to $2.6T, briefly passes Amazon

SpaceX’s valuation has increased by $1 trillion since its shares started trading on Friday.

Malaysia’s AI agent-powered messaging app Respond.io raises $62.5M, eyes acquisitions

Respond.io, one of Malaysia startups to watch, uses AI agents to handle high volumes of customer inquiries and charges per convo, not per seat.

Sundar Pichai faces boos, walkout at Stanford graduation ceremony over Google’s Israel, ICE ties

AI is once again at the heart of a college graduation protest — this time for the technology’s use in Google’s defense contracts.

The US government’s Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak

The Trump administration’s decision that forced Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity models could be reactionary, retaliatory, or both, but the message is clear: The AI industry isn’t immune from U.S. government interference.

As AI companies race to go public, who else is along for the ride?

Startups are trying to “ride that SpaceX IPO wave.”

Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to scam ‘hundreds of thousands of victims’ sued by Google

The tech giant said a group called “Outsider Enterprise” used AI to scam hundreds of thousands of victims, sending 2.5 million text messages over a span of two weeks.

SpaceX officially prices shares at $135 in the largest IPO ever

Wits its official share pricing announcement, SpaceX’s IPO has begun.